Lodged in a distant third place and facing mounting pressure, is there anything that could make Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa drop out of New York City’s mayoral race?

“There’s no dropping out,” the Guardian Angels founder told reporters on the Upper West Side Monday morning.

Sliwa had drawn one of his bigger crowds of reporters of late to the 96th Street subway station, where he took jeers from passersby in stride. “Go home Curtis, you suck, New York hates you,” one man yelled out of a passing red Jeep. “Drop out, drop out,” another man coming out of the subway station called out perfunctorily, barely looking up at Sliwa as he passed, as if already resigned to the fact that his wish won’t be fulfilled.

Easily identifiable by his signature red beret, Sliwa often attracts attention on

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